Worms they will rise white like Wheals under the plaister then cast more Coperas on your said plaister and so dresse him and he shall be whole To make the Face fair TAke the Flowers of Rosemary and boil them in white Wine then wash thy Face therewith and use to drink of the same Or take Burnet water and Wash thy Face therewith and let it dry by it self also Water of Bean Flowers doth better A Medicine for a white Scurf in the Face TAke of Vineger a Pinte and dissolve in it one Ounce of Champhire and let it stand there in fourteen dayes being very well stopped and then wash the diseased place This holp a Gentlewoman which had a long time a Scurf rising in her Face as though she had been a Leper For Chapped Lips TAke and anoint them with Vnguentum album consecratum and if there be any corrupt blood or matter you must wash the place with Water of Plantain wherein hath been sod a little Alum before you put in the same ointment also it is good to wash the place with Plantain Water and Barley Water together To put away Freckles in the Face Take and anoint thy Face with the Blood of a Hare or of a Bull and this shall destroy the Freckles within five nights dressing if you use it A singular Medicine for Worms in the Face TAke the Leaves and Roots of Leeks and the Juice of them all together and take thereof a Pint and a half and put it into a glasse with an Ounce of Powder of Pellitory and a scruple of Verdigreace and stir them all together and every day bath the Worm and Whelks With Cotton moistened in the said Juice and stir it often in the said glasse also it is good for Worms in any other Members and breeding in the sicknesse called in France the Kings Evil. To put away Freckles in the Face TAke and lay a raw Egge that is new laid in white Wine Vineger all night and on the morrow stamp the Egg small and then put thereto as much Powder of Mustard-seed as the Egge was and mingle it with the Egge and when thou goest to bed anoint thy Face therewith and on the morrow mingle Barley Meal and hot Water together then cast away the VVater and wash thy Face therewith nine dayes or take Salendine stamp it and temper it with white Wine and lay it to the Face or take a good quantity of Pellitory of Spain and white VVine and let it stand a while and then wash thy Face therewith and it will heal thee For Blains in the Face TAke Salt and the Roots of Plantain and Verjuice and stamp them well together and wash the Face therewith and this will heal thee For a foul Blast in the Face TAke red Honey-Suckle for the Man and white for the VVoman and take the juice thereof and annoint therewith thy Face and it will heal thee For a sawcy Flegme Face TAke the Roots of Enula Campana and seeth it in a pot of Vineger untill the Vineger be well sod away then stamp it in a Mortar and put thereto Quick-silver and Brimstone and Swines Greace and make therewith a plaister ointment and anoint thy Face therewith and if you make a plaister lay thereto the some stuffe This is proved Or toke Oil of Tartar and anoint thy Face therewith or any Canker or Ringworm or Tetter Leprosie for this will make it whole For a red Face full of Pimples TAke and distill Water of Salendine and dissolve Camphire in it as is afore written with Vineger and with this wash thy Face this did make a maid whole in twenty dayes that had a marvellous great heat in her Face Also there was a Farmers Wife in Berk-shire which had her Face full of white Scales and was cured with this that followeth she took Honey Suckle Leaves and distilled them and washed her Face often with the Water and it never came again Also there was a Woman which had such a grief in her Face that if she had been by the Fire but a little while and then gone abroad into the Aire her Face would have risen full of red spotts as though she had been drunk which was helpt with this which followeth She took Frankincense and Saffron and then made them to Powder and then cast this Powder upon a Chafingdish of Coals and received the Smoke with open Mouth and using it often was helped To take away Freckles in the Face TAke Pellitory and seeth it with Wine and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the Freckles and this will take it away or take the Gall of a Cock and mingle it with the Flower of Cocle of each a like quantity and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the Freckles or take when you kill a Bull and save the Blood thereof anoint the place therewith that hath the Freckles and it will take them away To take away the small Pox that they shall not be seen TAke the Juice of Fennell and heat it luke-warm and anoint the place therewith three or four dayes divers times for this is an approved Medicine for the small Pox. To make the Face fair TAke white Lillies green Cocle and green honey Suckles of every one a like much and then distill them in a Stilletory and take the Water thereof and wash therewith thy Face and within fifteen dayes thou shalt be fair Medicines for the Throat THE Causes of these Impediments do come of Rheume descending from the Head or by Opilation or such like therefore first purge Flegme and Rheume For a sore Throat that is inflamed TAke two spoonfulls and a half of Honey two good spoonfulls of Treacle of Alum as much as a Pullets Egge of sweet Butter two good spoonfulls five Sprigges of Rosemary a quarter of a spoonfull of Pepper and for an old body the more Pepper For dry Hoarsenesse in the Throat TAke the Root of Parslie and the Root of Fennell a like much and three penny weight of Enula Campana and one pound of Figges and a quarter of a pound of Licoras seeth all these together in a Gallon of running Water to three quarts and put therein a little Hysop and strain it then boil it and take the white of ten or twelve Egges and put therein and let it boil together till it turn clear then take Sugâ—r Roset and put thereto as much as a Hens Egge then take it from the Fire and cleanse it through a fair Cloth and drink thereof Morn and Evening For a Canker in the Throat TAke a Pint of good stale Ale and a good handfull of Sage and a good stone of Alum as much as an Egge and boil them together well and then with a Cloth wash thy Throat and garle it in thy Throat and be whole Or take Sage Woodbine Rue Hysop or Penyryall of each a quarter of a handfull and boil them in good Wine Vineger or strong Ale with a little Roch Alum and a
a Barrow For one that is burned with a Match TAke the same Match and burn it to powder and strew the same powder upon the place and this will heal it in short space For burning with Gun-powder TAke Sheeps sewet and Sheeps dung and fry them both together and so annoynt the place that is burned therewith twice every day and do not wash the sore with any thing for the meditine vvil fall away of it self as it doth heale and do not change the medicine in any wise For burning with Wild-fire TAke the dregs of Wine and Vineger and an Egg both the white and yolk by even portions and mingle them well together and lay it to the sore untill it be whole To get out the fire of burning or scalding TAke the whites of new laid Eggs after the quantity of the sore and put them in a peuter dish and with a stone of Roch Allum labour it about till it come all to a froth then take a fine linnen cloth and wet it in Oyl Olive or for lack of it in fresh grease or butter and lay it next the sore and then lay the froth upon the same a good thicknesse and so bind it with a cloth foure times dresse it evening and morning and the fire will be out Medicines to stop Bloud To stop Bloud in a Veine TAke a handfull of Leaves of the little Burrs that stick upon a mans Coat and are called Strachantes and bray these Leaves and lay them to the wound and it will stop the bloud To stop bloud in a wound suddainly TAke Paper Flax or Linnen cloth which is next thy hand and burn it and put it into the wound the ashes thereof hot and the bloud shall stop straight Or if you will stamp nettle roots and lay them to the wound it shall be no more To stop bloud if the Master-Veine be cut or the wound very large TAke red nettles or red Colwort Leafs stamp them with Hogs dung well tempered together and lay it on the wound and this will stench the bleeding quickly Or take dried Vervain made in Powder and put the Powder into the wound and it will help For a wound that is full of Bloud TAke red Nettles and stamp them with Vineger and lay them upon the wound and it will cleanse the wound and do away the bloud To stop bleeding at the Nose or in any other place upon the suddain IF it be a man that bleedeth take a Leather point and tye about his stones very hard and this wil stop the bleeding straight Or if his Arm or Leg be cut bind the other Arm or Leg very hard and the bloud will run to the other side that is most pained Medicines for the Morphew TAke Mustard made of white Vineger and let the Patient annoynt himself withall where the Morphew is nine nights and this will help him Or take and bray Sorrell and strain it clear then put to it as much sugar and honey as you do juice and boil them well together over the fire and then let them seeth till the sugar have the tast then put to it one ounce of Vineger and so dresse it and keep the medicine to eat Another for the same TAke an ounce of very good sope and a penyworth of Aqua vitae and put them both into a Morter and grind them well together then take a handfull of Eglantine and stamp it and strain it and put some of the juice to the soâ—e and Aqua vita and then take a course Canvas cloth and rub where the Morphew is and after annoynt the place with this medicine and be whole For the black Morphew THere be two kind of Morphews the white and the black the white is named Alborus and for remedy for the black Morphew take this rule that if the place be pricked and will not bleed then it is not cureable but if it will bleed take of Rapes and Rocket of each an ounce and an half and stamp it with Vineger and after that wash the place Or take of the earth of Africk and mix it with Vineger and wash the place oft therewith and it will heal thee A most excellent Water to comfort the Vitalls and preserve other parts of the body made by Doctor Stephens TAke a gallon of good Gascoygne Wine Ginger Galingale Cinamon Nutmegs Graines Cloves Anniseeds Fennell seed a Dram Sage Mints red Roses Time Pellitory Rosemary wild Time Camomile Lavender of each one handfull then bruise the spices and the herbs small and put all into the Wine and let it stand twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Lymbeck according to the art and the first water is of more strength then the second and both be the better by the standing in the Sun The vertues hereof Be to comfort the spirits vitall helps to the inward diseases of cold the Palsey the contraction of Sinews the conception of Women killeth the Wormâ— within the body cureth the Cough Toothach cold Dropfie comforteth the Stomach helpeth the stone in the Bladder and in the reins of the Back slackneth a stinking breath Whosoever useth this water ever anon and not too aften it preserveth him in good likeing and maketh him seem young very long with this Doctor Stephens preserved his own life untill such extreme Age that he could neither go nor ride and kept him five years when other Phisitians judged it impossible for him to live one year To make Cinamon Water TAke Rhenish Wine a quart and Spanish wine a pint Rosewater a pint and a half Cinamon bruised a pound and a half let these stand infused the space of four and twenty hours then distill it and being close stopped and luted then with a soft fire distill the same softly in a Limbeck of Glasse and receive the first Water by it self Also if ye be so disposed to make the same Water weaker take three pints of Rosewater and a pint and a half of Rhenish Wine and so distill the same and you shall have to the quality of the stuffe the quantity of the Water which is three pints but the first Water is the best and so reserve it to your use both morning and evening To make Cinamon Water another way TAke three quarts of Muskadine and a pound of Cinamon and half a pint of good Rose-water and so let them lie infused the space of four and twenty hours and distill it as aforesaid and you shall receive to the quantity as to the quality but the first pint is the best and the chiefest of all the other as is manifest by practise Medicines for the Palsie that take away the Speech TAke Sage leaves and Primrose leaves and if it be in winter take leaves and roots and all of each a like quantity beat them together and strain them with Ale and give it the sick to drink a spoonful or two at a time and it will bring the speech again For the Palsie TAke and stamp a
of each a like quantity bray them well together and the first day lay them in white Wine the second day lay them in the Urine of a man-child the third day lay them in the Milk of a woman that feedeth a man-child the fourth day in clean Hony and then distill them with a clean fire softly and keep that water well for it is excellent For a hurt in a mans Eye that cometh with a stroke TAke Betany two handfulls and beat it small in a mortar and put thereto the white of an Egge and break it with the other in a mortar and take of the same liquor and put it into thine Eye and lay some upon the Eye and bindit fast and do so nine dayes and be whole Another for the same TAke Egremony and bray it and temper it with white Wine and an Egge and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the outside of thine Eye and if were almost out it would heal it without doubt For the Eyes that run full of water and be bleared TAke of the juice of Rue foure spoonfulls and two of Honey and mingle them together and when you go to bed put thereof into your Eyes and keep it in together and use this and it will help thee Or take two or three roots of red Fennell and the leaves also and a branch of Salendine and a good race of white Ginger pared and beaten flat and if one be not great enough take two races put all these into half a pint of running water and cover it and use to put of this water into your Eyes when you go to bed and an houre before you rise in the morning when you take thereof strain it To save a mans sight a long time good TAke a crop of Rue and another of Camomile and eat them fasting with a fig or two three dayes in a week and this will save thy sight To draw Rheume back that falleth into the Eye TAke an Egge and rost it hard and slit it into two parts and lay it hot to the nape of the neck and thou shalt find ease presently A medicine for sore Eyes and for the Megrim in the head TAke the white of a new laid Egge clean taken from the yolk and a spoonfull of white Ginger and a spoonfull of strong white Vineger made of Malmsey or white Wine and a spoonfull of clean Rose water but first the white of the Egge must be well beaten and then to the oyl of the Egge put your other things above written and beat them all together then take Flax as much as will make two plaisters for either Temple one with a cloth and dip it into the medicine and bind upon every Temple one with a cloth and take heed the medicine do not touch your Eyes and do this three or four nights together and every morning the Eyes will cleave together with the Gumme but this medicine hath brought to sight them that were eight weeks stark blind For a Pearl and Wb in the Eye TAke fine white Ginger and grate it upon a whetstone and then beat fine a little white Coperas and put to it and when the Patient goeth to bed put some of it with a quill into his Eyes and when it hath been there a little while take ground Ivy beaten and strained with womans Milk and put three or foure drops into your Eyes evening and morning after the white Coperas hath been in your Eyes half an hour Probatum est A Medicine to clear the sight TAke clean Rose water a quantity in a sawcer and take clean Myrrhe as much as a nut and break it to powder small and bind it in a clean linnen cloth and let it lie in the Rosewater twelve hours and then the water will wax somewhat red of the Myrrhe then take of this water and put it into your Eye and this will clear the sight very well Probatum est To make a precious water for sore Eyes that be fair to look on and yet cannot see with them TAke Smallage and red Fennell Rue Betany Vervain Pimpernell Eyebright Sage and Salendine of every one of these a quartern and wash them clean and stamp them in a very fair vessell and take the powder of fifteen Pepper corns and a pint of good white Wine and three spoonfulls of good live Honey and fifteen spoonfulls of the water of a man child that is very young then put all these together and let it boil over the fire a little and then strain it through a clean cloth and keep it in a vessell or glasse well stopped and when you will occupie it put some of it into your Eyes with a feather and if it dry away in the glasse then put a little white Wine to it and this is good for all sore Eyes if thy Eyes be never so sore in fifteen dayes it will heal thee Probatum est For a Pearl and Web in the Eye TAke fine white Ginger beaten fine into powder searse it and seeth it a great while in good white Wine and put it into a faire vessell of Latten well stirred and let it stand in the vessell till it look green then put it into a glasse and when you have need of it use it with a little white Coperas at the dressing Or for the Web in the Eye take the gall of an Hare and clarified Honey by even portions and mingle them together and lay it on the Web and within three nights the Web shall break and save the sight Probatum est A Medicine for any that have the small Pox fallen into their Eyes TAke Pimpernell and stamp it and strain it and take the juice thereof and drop it into your Eyes where the small Pox is with a feather morning and evening and this is a speciall good Medicine for a Pin a Web or a Pearle in the Eye For a Pin and a Web. TAke the Ivy leaves that grow upon an Ash tree wipe them clean with a cloth and stamp them and strain them with Womans milk if it be a man that hath a Pearl in the Eye strain it with the milk of a woman that nurseth a Girl if a woman have a Pearl then with the milk of a Boy and the sorer the Eye is the more of the juice you must take and lesse of the milk and drop this Medicine into thine Eye with a feather morning and Evening and twice in the afternoon This is proved For sore Eyes TAke the juice of Houseleek Womans milk Rose water or Woodbine water and the white of a new laid Egge well beaten the froth taken away and beat all these together and dip in Flax and say it to your Eyes when you go to bed Probatum est For Eyes that are swoln TAke two spoonfulls of Womans milk one spoonfull of Rose water the pap of a rosted Apple and the yolk of a new laid Egge and boil all these together in a sawcer upon a chafing-dish of coals
Leeks with the tails and wash them clean and stamp them and fry them in Barrows-grease and make a Plaister and lay it all about the yard and be whole Or take Betony and seeth it in Wine and stamp it and make a Plaister and lay it to the Cods and it will asswage the swelling of them this is well proved For pain in a mans Yard through Gravel or Champise as followeth TAke Pellitory and Boares-grease and fry them together well and make two Plaisters thereof and lay one between the Navel and the Yard and the other on the Reines of the back and anon thou shalt deliver water and gravel which before thou mightst not do but by drops this will help thee without doubt To make a water for a sore Yard TAke and put Allom in fair water and seeth it till it wax tough then put it in a pewter Box this will cleanse a sore and make it fair For burnign with a Harlot IF a man be burnt with a Harlot and do meddle with another woman within one day she shal be burned If one be burned let him wash his secrets two or three times with white Wine or Sack and water but if the matter have continued long go to some expert Chyrurgion to have help or else thy Guts will burn and fall out of thy belly For a mans Stones that hang down long TAke the fatness of a Conney and anoynt thy Cods and Stones therewith and then wrap thy Sones in a Conny-skin do this nine times and labour not in nine dayes and be whole For him that cannot make water TAke Rue Grommel and Parsley and stamp them and mingle them with white Wine and give the sick thereof to drink warm Or take the juyce of Cinquefoil and drink it with Posset-ale and it will make you make water anon For one that cannot make water TAke the stones and Kercels of Peches and Medlers as much of the one as of the other and make them into Powder very fine and searse them this done take fine Sugar the weight of all this and mingle all this together and let the Patient drink thereof with good white Wine and he shall be whole incontinent To make one make water TAke six or seven Berries of Ivy and stamp them and strain them with Ale and give the sick to drink therof and he shall make water straight To make one make water TAke a pinte of good Ale and put therein of Honey even as it cometh out of the Hive with Bees wax and all and strain it with the Ale then give it the Patient to drink and within one quarter of an hour he shall make water with this was one holpen that lay three dayes and never made water To make one make water TAke a pinte of white Wine and a good spooonful of Sivil Soap finely scraped and the yolks of two Eggs well put from the whites beat all these together with the Wine and then strain it and warm it luke-warm and drink hereof as often as you shall feel pain and this will help you for it is well proved A Medicine for the Scyatica THis Infirmity cometh of hard lying on the Huckle-bones or lying upon the ground or upon a forme or such like it may come by a stripe or by a fall and it will run from the Huckle-bone to the knee and from the knee to the anckle and from the anckle to the little toe and then it is past cure and otherwhiles this Gowt will have a reflexion ro the Reines of the back and to the Flank and it may come of a gross Flegmetique humour The chiefest remedy is to anoint the place with oyl of Turpentine and Aqua vitae compounded together and use to anoint the place often against the fire and a searcloth of pitch is good For the Scyatica TAke oyl of Olive May butter gall of a Bul and red Onyons and boyle these together and lay it to the hips where the paine is this is a good Medicine Or take a red cloth and Anoynt it with Clarified Honey and thereupon strew the powder of Cummyn and as hot as you may Bind it to the sore and be whole For the Scyatica in the Hip. Take a Pottle of wine Lees and wine dregs and sower bread and Cow-dung and boyl these well together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the paine as hot as you may suffer it and this will heal you For the Scyatica Passion TAke a Gallon of Urine and seeth it well and scum it well untill it be cleer and then take it downe and let it stand untill it be cold and then put the cleer therof into a faire Pot and put away the dregs and then take the same cleer Urine and put it over the fire and put therein a quart of black dew Snails and boyl them together until the Snails be wasted then strain it through a hair sive and keep the same liquor in an earthen pot and aniont the hipp and the legg therwith before a hot fire and let the liquor be warm For all manner of Gouts and consumed members and for the Scyatica passion TAke a pound of Riote of red docks that men make brogys of and wash them clean and dry them in the sun untill the water be away then cut them small and bray them in a morter and boyl them in a quart of strong vineger untill half be wasted and then with the same anoint the aking place and it will amend then keep it in a vial of glass or els it will dry away This Medicine is very excellent for the diseases abovewritten for it hath been very well proved Medicines for the fundament A Remedy for falling out of the Fundament FIrst beware of taking cold in that place and beware of costiveness and keep your arse and buttocks warm and sit not upon the cold earth nor upon stones nor upon no hard thing but take something under the buttocks not only for falling out of the Longation or arsgut for all other infirmities that may be engendred in the Longation For the figge in the fundament THis Impediment is a Impostumation or lump of flesh growing in the Longation and it doth come of melancholy humors the which doth descend to the Longation or fundament and for remedy purge the matter with confection of hamock or with the pills of Lapides Lazule or with Vera Rufini then take of the powder of a dogs head burned and mix it with the juyce of pimpernel and make tents and put into the fundament For him that his fundament goeth out TAke bay leaves and boyl them in a pot of water and as hot as you can suffer it you must sit over it to the intent the fume of the water may go up into the body and with your finger put it up by little and little and when it is hot heat an Oaken board and sit on it as hot as you can suffer it and it wil help you
the joynts and Synews TAke five or six handfulls of Walworts and seeth them well in Wine then strain them with a little wax oyl of Spike and Aqua vitae make an ointment wherewith you must annoint the place morning and evening every day Medicines for the Gout appropriate in all causes TAste cow dung and seeth it in sweet Milk and lay a plaister thereof to the Gout Also the yolks of Eggs womans Milk Lynseed and Saffron all together in a plaister asswageth the diseases of the Gout and if you be disposed to break the skin and to let the humor issue out as by such means many a one is eased you shall make a little plaister of black Sope and Aquavitae which will blister it without pain Also very hare old cheese cut and sodden in the broth of a gammon of Bacon and afterwards stamped with a little of the broth and made in manner of a plaister is a singular remedy for the diseases of the Gout and was first practised by Galen the Prince of all Phisitians For the Gout in the Feet TAke and stamp nettles and lay them to the Podagra Feet or Legs and this will joyn flesh to the bone that is risen but you must mingle it with salt for that drieth up evill humors in short time For the Gout cold TAke as much black sope as a Walnut and as much herb grace made in juice to the quantity of the Sope and as much of the juice of Salendine and mingle them all together then take sheeps Leather and on the fleshy side lay on the plaister and so lay it to the Gout three daies and it will help thee For the Gout TAke a pint and a half of good Ale and half a pound of black Sope and a handfull of bay Salt beaten small then mingle them all together till half be consumed then put four spoonfulls of Aqua vitae and let it boyl a little more then take a cloth and dip it in it and lay it to the griefe as hot as he can suffer it and be whole Or take a pint of good Ale and clarifie it on the fire and put therein a handfull of Bay Salt and stir it well a good while put thereto two spoonfuls of black Sope and before you lay on the medicine take a linnen cloth and rub it well a good while and then lay on the medicine To take away pain of the Gout TAke the fattest Brach you can get and scald him like a Pig and take out the guts and garbadge at one of the sides then take nettles and stamp them with two ounces of Brimstone four yolks of Eggs four ounces of Turpentine incorporate all together and put it in the whelps belly surely sowed up that no composition come out then rost him with a soft fire and keep the dripping that doth come from him and annoint the sore place therewith for this is excellent and will cease all manner of Convulsions of the Sinews or joynts and pain of the Cramp that may be felt in any man This medicine hath been tryed not only to heal the Gout but to drive it away for ever Another for the same TAke half a pint of strong Vineger and three Yolks of Eggs and put them to the Vineger with a quantity of black Sope and so let it stand three daies and three nights and then mingle them together like a plaister and lay it to the sore Or take and stamp Walwort small and seeth it with the lees of red Wine as thick as pap and lay it to the sore wheresoever it be if it be hot lay it on hot if it be cold lay it on cold and then annoynt it two daies after with Nerve Oyl upon the Sinews For the festring Gout that maketh holes TAke the juice of rib grasse and as much of the white of an Egg and Rie meal and mingle them together and stamp them and make a thick plaister thereof and lay it to the sore and let it lie still untill it fall away Or take Rie flower and mingle it with the juice of Walwort roots and make thereof two cakes and bake them and then take one and do away the crust and bind it to the sore as hot as you may suffer it and when that cake is cold then take the other and lay it to the pain and this wil heal it For the Gout TAke Castle sope and scrape it into the barm of Ale but the Ale must not be sowre and stir the sope and the barm together and then lay it upon the ach and with a little cloth rowl it on and when it swells take red Fennell and seeth it and put to it butter and lay it to the swelling it must be butter unsalted and use this for it is very good An approved medicine for the Gout TAke a quantity of unwrought Wax and four times so much Boars Grease and as much black Sope as the Boars Grease then take the Boars Grease first and seeth it in a skillet and then clarifie it and melt the Wax by it self and put it to the grease and then put them together with the sope then take it firom the fire and stir it a great while till it be like a salve then make a plaister of sheeps Leather and when your pain doth come lay on this plaister somewhat broader then the grief is and let it lie on twenty four hours before it be removed and you shall find great ease in it This salve wil be good a whole year if it be kept close A speciall medicine for the Gout YOu shall buy at the Apothecaries Cantarides which is a great fly take of this a quantity and twice so much sowre bread the crums thereof stamped in a Morter with a little Vineger so that you may make thereof a plaister then stroke it upon a cloth and cut it the bredth of a penny and lay it to the place where the pain is for the space of six or seven hours then lift up the plaister with a knife and let it lie half an hour then again pull it off and a blister wil rise there then let out the water with a needle in the lowest place of the blister and softly thrust it with your finger and if the water be cold it will be somewhat yellow if the pain be new it will be white like the gelly of a Pig then take the leaf of an Oak tree and cut away the hardnesse thereof and prick it full of holes and lay it on untill it be whole as soon as the blister is broken the pain is gone but you must make the blister beneath the joynt For the Gout TAke six new laid Eggs and rost them hard and cut them asunder take out the yolks and where the yolks were while the Eggs be very hot put in myrrhe of Alexandria it is to be bought at the Apothecaries and lay one side of the Eggs upon another as you cut them and lay them in a row
you next to your skin you shall not have the Cramp Another for the Cramp TAke two spoonfuls of May-butter and two spoonfuls of Ruejuyce and temper them together till they be a salve and anoint the place therewith Medicines for all kind of sores and wounds and first to draw a sore TAke and beat Oatmeal in a Morter small and then put it into milk and seeth it well together with a handful of Rose-flowers unstild if you may have them or else of them that are stilled and not burned and seeth them till they be like Pap together and then lay them warm to the sore as the Patient may suffer it evening and morning and this will dry it A good water for every sore TAke a quart of ashes made of an Ash and a pottle of vineger and a pound of Madder half a pound of Allom-glass and seeth all these together until they be half wasted then take it from the fire and let it stand and spurge then take the water that is clear above and put it into a Vial and put that water into a sore and this will heal it without any more cost A Plaister for that swelling which is called an Vncome TAke Rue and Smalledge of each an handful a good gobet of fat Bacon such as is very much smoaked or resty as they call it and dress the said Bacon in squares as big as your finger and beat all these together till it be dissolved and meet to spread upon leather or cloth and lay it to the sore and it will both draw it and heal it when it is broken A soveraine plaister for any Ach. TAke a quart of Malmsey and a spoonful of Sallet-oyl a good handful of Onyons pilled broken and bruised and an-ounce of pepper finely beaten then seeth all these together till they be thick and spread it upon a cloth and lay it to the place where the pain is and this will take away the Ach. A Medicine or Oyntment called Flos Unguentorum TAke Rosin and per Rosin of each half a pound Virgin wax and Frankincense of each a quarter of a pound Mastick an ounce Harts tallow a quarter of a pound and Camphire two drams melt that which is to be molten and powder that which is to be made in powder and searce them fine and boyl them over the fire and then strain them through a Canvas cloth into a pottle of white wine then boyl the wine with all the other ingredients together till the wine be confumed then let it cool till it be but bloud-warm then put thereto a quarter of a pound of Turpentine evermore stiring it till it be thorow cold but ever beware your stuff be no hotter then bloud when you put in your Turpentine and Camphire for if it be it marreth all your stuff then when it is cold make it up in rolls and keep it for your use for the best medicine and precious salve that ever was or can be made To make Salus Populi which is good for Blanes and to skin all sores in three days and is good for him that feareth the Hemeroids TAke of Salendine two handfuls Allom one handful and grind them together like sauce then take Weathers tallow or Harts tallow a pound of oyl of Roses half a pound and melt them together and boyl the herbs therein until it sink down to the bottom and it wax somwhat black then strain it and keep it to your use This Oyntment is hard and therefore when you will use of it put it in a spoon and melt it over the fire and understand it must not be put in old sores but there as it scaldeth the skin off and when there riseth any pimples white black blew or red this Salus Populi dryeth well and healeth well and destroyeth the wild stre A special Medicine for a Bruise TAke a great handful of Rue the white and Yolks of five Eggs half a pint of Honey and a handful of wheat flower temper all these together and make it thick and so lay it to the place that is bruised upon a fair cloth heated hot against the fire and let it ly twenty four hours and then lay on a fresh To asswage any Swelling where-ever it be TAke two handfuls of Penyrial and set it in the strongest Ale you can get til it be tender then take it and press it from the herbs and lay it unto the swelling as hot as he can suffer it and so use it two or three days and it will be good A marvellous Salve to heal and draw TAke Betony Plantane and Smallage the juyce of them one pound then take four ounces of Wax that cometh of the honey two ounces of incense white and clean two ounces of pitch two ounces of Rosin melt these by themselves upon a soft fire that done put the juyce of the herbs to it and boyl it together until the juyce be wasted and alwaies stir it then take it from the fire and strain it through a clean cloth then take two ounces of Turpentine and temper it with the rest and when it is cold keep it as gold To heal a wound TAke the flowers of herb John and put them in a glass and put thereto as much oyl Olive as will cover the herbs and then stop the glass close and put it in the Sun for the space of twenty days or more then it will be a fine coloured oyntment and very good for green wounds and when you will use it warm it a little at the fire and then wet your Lint therein and lay it to the wound and it will be whole A water to heal all manner of wounds in short space which is a thing that every man ought to have in his house seeing it is of so great vertue TAke a pound of new yellow wax or as much as you will and melt it in a clean pan and then pour it out into some other vessel wherein must be Malmsey Muscadel or good Claret-wine and then take the wax out and pour it again upon the wine I and do so seven times then take the said wax and melt it on the fire and put into it a handful of Brick beaten into fine powder and stir it well together and then put it into a crook't-neckt glass such as Stillers call the Bag-pipe-glass you must clay it well about the midst of the glasses neck and let it distil first with a little fire and then more and last with a good great fire and then when all the things be cold put it out of your recipient and pour it into a Viol well stoped with wax and searcloth so that in no case the ayre go out no sun nor fire come to it for it is so fine of himself that it will vanish away straight and when you will occupy it you must wet and moyst the wound with a fine linnen cloth and so bind it to the wound To heal a wound in ten days TAke Camphire and
chicken will gape and labour for life and in the end he will dy then take another Pullet and do the like and so another as the Pullets do dy for when the poyson is drawn out the last chicken that is offered thereto will live the sore presently is asswaged and the party recovereth it is necessary to use the Medicine to drive away venome from the heart This is proved very true To make Plague water TAke a pound of Rosemary a pound of Salerdine a pound of Sage and a pound of Balm a pound of Mugwort one pound of Rue one pound of Wormwood one pound of Dragon one pound of Scabias one pound of Pimpernel that grows among the corne one pound of Angelica and one pound of Betony put all these herbs together in a great pot with a narrow mouth and let them soak in white Wine three dayes and three nights closely stopped and then take the herbs out and styll them and keep the water in a fair glass and if any be sick of the Plague give him the value of ten spoonfuls blood-warm so soon as he doth feel himself sick and then let him walk if he be able if not lead him by the armes and keep him from eating and drinking one hour after and then let him go to bed and if he vomit it is the better for him and if it be possible that he take it before he sleep he shall escape by Gods grace and the elder the water is the better it is This water is good for the quartane Ague or any disease lying in the stomack taking it before the fit doth come and this water must be stylled in the month of May Contra vim mortis non est Medicamen in hortis To make Doctor Josephus Water TAke a pint of Water and a spoonfnl of French Barley half a handful of red Rose leaves two or three drops of the Oyl of Brimstone and a quarter of a pound of the finest refined Sugar the water and Barley to seeth together and then the scum to be taken off and so the other to be let cool so with the Rose leaves to stand all night and then to be well brewed all together but first the leaves and Barley strained from the Water For the Convulsion TAke one ounce of an Elke-hoof and half an ounce of English Liqueris two piana small roots two or three Fenel roots as many Parsly roots three or four roots of unset Hyssop a little quantity Herbegrass which is Rue a quart of small beer but boyl it till it come to a pinte then strain it and sweeten it with Syrop of Hyssop and give it the Party before and after the Fit For the moist Rhume in the Head TAke conserve of Roses two ounces Metridate two drams Bolearminak one dram of Olibinum one dram and an half Mastick half a dram beat these together with Syrop of Violets into the form electuary whereof take twice going to bed and in the morning the quantity of a Nutmeg Another for the same ROsemary flowers Elder flowers Bittony flowers Sage flowers of each two good handfuls Scurvy grass three handfuls China-roots three ounces an ounce of sweet Fennel-seeds two ounces of Coriander-seeds half a pound Fumitur three handfuls Epithimum Agramony Hartstongue of each two handfuls Harts-horn-shaving one ounce of Stringoroots four ounces Citron-seeds Musked half an ounce let these be boyled in a gallon and an half of Whey and let them first be infused two dayes in a gallon of white Wine then put the ingredience with the Wine to the Whey and let them be boyled gently the space of two hours and so next day drink thereof half a pint in the morning and so in the afternoon as long as it lasteth An approved Medicine for sore Eyes TAke six ounces of Lapis Callimnaris and heat that in a wooden fire and blow it red hot and then quench it in a pinte of pure white Wine in a Bowl or any other clean vessel nine times and then strain it out by it self through a fine linnen cloth and then take a handful of Houslick unwashed and stamp it in a clean Morter and strain it through a fine cloth then put the quench'd Wine and that both together and strain them again through a fine cloth and then take a feather and drop it in your eyes three or four drops at a time every morning and evening and by the grace of God you will find help in a very short time Probatum est A Medicine for Children that have the wormes approved by Mistris Isabel Dee in Moscoe TAke Wormseed and boyl it in Beer and then sweeten it with clarifyed Honey and let them drink of it every morning fasting For a pain in the stomack by a Cold. TAke two or three Turnips and wrap them in brown Paper weted and put them in Ember-ashes for two hours as ready for to eat and then scruze the juyce out of them betwixt two Trenchers and then mix it with Loaf-sugar with Cynamon and Nutmeg powdered and made like a Syrop and then drink four ounces of it at night when you go to bed Probatum est Mistris Fâ—…yerirs medicine for sore Eyes TAke a pine of white Wine two drams of Camphire cut as small as may be half an ounce Omphacium that is pure oyl of green Grapes or for want of that your purest Sallet-oyl put the Camphire and the Oyl into a Basin let them stand covered two hours then put in your white Wine to them then take the stones called Lapides Culumanaris and heat three of them fire hot then put them so hot into the Wine covering your Basin very close while they are a cooling in the water heat three more fire hot take the other out and put in the hot ones and so heat them by course five or six times till the Wine is very hot and the Camphire well dessolved then take the clcarest of it and the top when it is cold and reserve it in glasses For your use put two or three drops into the sore ey three times a day For a Fellon or a Whitlow FIrst take a quarter of a pinte of Milk and as much Leaven as an egg and let it boyl till it commeth to be as thick as a Poultess then take a penny-worth of oyl of Roses and mix with it and which is above half a spoonful and so apply it to the grieved place as hot as you can twice a day lay it too as you do a Poultess This is proved For one that is Bursten or a Child that hath been Bursten six years TAke oyl of Nip or Nep and anoynt the Party therewith and morning and evening take of the herbs and bind one boyl'd in Butter or dip Wool in the aforesaid Oyl this use six weeks until you be whole This proved For to keep a Child from having Convulsion fits TAke oyl of sweet Almonds new drawn beaten up with white Sugar-candy and give the Child so soon as it
but red Wine after it this did help a man that had the Flux a great while on him Or take an old Apple and pull out the Core then put into the Apple a ball of Virgin-wax then roast it in the Embers and eat it this will stop the Fux Probatum To avoid bruised Blood TAke Nepp and drink the juyce thereof with Wine or Ale eight or nine times and that will cause it to avoid downwards although he had it twenty times A gentle Purgation to be taken at all times without fear TAke two ounces of Syrrp of De radibus Manna one ounce mingle these with five ounces of the water of Bugloss and he shall have a Lask without peril Or take a little clarify'd Butter and put it in Ale luke-warm and give the Patient to drink thereof and it will make him go to stool Medicines for the Stone A Medicine for the Stone tryed by Master Hide of Narbury TAke four handfuls of Prosper six handful of Parsley and Parsley-roots two handful of Grommel or for want of that some Grommelfeed the quantity of an Egg-shel full two handful of Philipendula three handful of Betony four handful Mousear one handful Centuary with Mast begotten between the two Lady-days two handful of Cherry-stones three handful of Brierheps threescore inner-skins of Pigeons gissarers let them be washed and hanged upon a thred till they be dry so as they may be knocked to powder as also the Heps and Cherry stones must be dryed in an Oven or before the fire the other herbs in the Summer the Heps Cherry-stores and Gissarens must be knocked to powder every one severally by themselves the other herbs must be rubbed to powder then blend them altogether and sift them through a sine sive and take every morning and evening a quantity of half a Nutmeg of the same powder and put it in a spoon and blend a little Beer or Ale and sup it and drink after it and use this till you find ease An excellent Medicine for them that have the Stone THere grows in the Gall of some Oxen a certain yellow stone somtimes in bigness of a Walnut somwhat long and brittle if you take that Stone and make it to powder and eat of it in your pottage the weight of a scruple or more at a time according to your strength it is a singular thing for them that cannot make water and for stopping of the Conduits For the Stone and Strangullion TAke a handful of Chickweed and as much fresh Butter as a Walnut and half so much black soap and stamp them altogether in a morter and then fry them and lay them plaisterwise to thy Navel and this will make thee void the Stone without any pain And for the Strangullion take the bone that is in the pistle of a Weasel and dry it and make powder thereof and use to drink it with Ale or Beer and be whole For the Stone that never faileth TAke Barley Malt and pick it very clean and then grind it and make thereof good Wort and put into the said Wort a good quantity of Cherry stone kernels and Gum that groweth on Cherry trees and boyl the Wort and the Gum together until half the Wort be consumed then strain it and put it a fair Vessel and use to drink thereof morning and evening and be whole on warrant Another for the same TAke the Urine of a Boar and give it the patient to drink and it shall drive out the Stone wheresoever it be This medicine did a Lady use for the best medicine that ever she knew Another for the same TAke the blood of a Fox and anosnt the side that is sore and the Stone will break to powder and go away if you use it Or take the blood of a Fox with white Wine and it will break the stone hastily To break the Stone in the Bladder TAke a great Flint stone and lay it in the fire until it be as hot as fire and then put it into stale Ale and drink thereof at evening and at morning and it will break A soveraine Medicine for the Stone TAke the blood of a Fox and anoint thy Yard therewith and this will break the Stone in the Bladder and to try the goodness thereof put some small stone into the Fox bloud and it will break it Or take a great root of Radish and pare him and cut him into fifty round pieces and put them into a dish and put thereto honey enough and let it stand all night and on the morrow eat nine pieces and the next day eight and then seven and so abating one every day till all be eaten and this will break the Stone A proved Medicine for the Stone TAke true black Jet and beat it to powder and searse it then take Bees stings and all and dry them in an Oven and make powder thereof and drink it and the Jet together and if you put the feed of Burrows made into powder to it it will be the better And for lack of Bees and Bur-seed you may use to drink the Jet alone This medicine is well proved and if you use it it will help you A Medicine for the Stone oftentimes proved TAke green Samphire as it groweth and make powder thereof and let him that is troubled with the Stone drink every week of it whether he feel pain or no and in short time it will rid him clean of the Stone this powder is best to be drunk with white Wine For the Stone TAke the Acorns that grow on an Oak and dry them and make powder thereof and drink it in the morning fasting with Rhenish wine and sugar and this will break the Stone A most approved Medicine for the Collick and Stone by the most learned Phisitian Doctor Gynello TAke a quantity of wood Betony and dry it to powder and a quantity of the roots of Elicampana and dry them into powder and boyl them with a little sugar plate in a quart of red wine unto a pint and drink it hot in the morning fasting before the sun be up and in the evening after the sun is down use this three times and it will help thee God willing A special Medicine for the Stone of Doctor Leuckner his Experiment as followeth TAke the green weed that cometh from the Sea amongst the Oysters and wash it very clean and dry it as dry as you can and make it into fine powder and drink it fasting with Malmsey and it will break the greatest Stone that is For the Stone THe best thing that is to dissolve the Stone ln man or womans body is the oyl of Christal being dulcified and given to the Patient a Dram at once in white Wine or Renish Wine a good draught for if you lay a stone in the Vrine which the Patient voided afterwards it will dissolve him in twelve hours and the same oyl will also heal any green wound or sore with great expedition There was a man the
is born as much as a good big Pea or Nut This proved For a Child still born that was not long dead in the womb or if there be any life in it though not in appearance TAke of the blood of the String and sueeze out a drop as you cut the Navel string into a spoon and give it the Child in a little fair water and if life be in it it recoyers in an hour or less Proved For to bring them down on a Woman in Child-bed though never so weak TAke half a Dosin of Piana seeds and beat them a little till the black hull come off and then beat this small and give her in a spoonful of Cardus-posset-drink sweeten it with a little sugar then give her a good draught of the Posset to drink as hot as she can and let her lie close and it will cause her to sweat and it will be a meanes to bring them and to drive an Ague away if she take it but three times every two hours Proved To make a Cordial to give one in a burning Fever or Ague in the time of their burning when it is at the height TAke some gross Mace oyl a quarter of a pint and sweeten it with an ounce or two penny-worth of the Syrop of Clove-gilliflowers and give it him to drink And you may make another on this wise Take the juyce of an Orange and as much red Rose-water and sweeten it with white Sugar-candy it will refresh the Spirits and cool and alay their drought Probotum est To make a Glister for one that is troubled with a sharp humour that causeth blood to proceed instead of Ordour TAke a pint and an half of Milk and boyl it into a pint with a handful of red Rose leaves and sweeten it with powdered Sugar and give it him and let him keep it as long as he can Probatum For an Itch that is vehement TAke of your Soap and Brimstone a like quantity and as much English honey and boyl these together till it be like an oyntment and then anoynt your wrists with it warm by the fire and lap clouts about them warm and anoint under your Arm-holes and under your Hams and in the bent of your Arms and do not shift you in a month nor pull off your clouts from off your wrists all the while and you shall be whole without any purge though your hands were all scabby Probatum For a Consumption TAke as much flour of Brimstone as you can take upon a Sixpence and pour three drops of Blood-warm Milk into a Spoon and mix it by degrees and till it be like Batter and your Spoon being full put to it good store of Sugar then drink the rest of the pinte of Milk blood-warm also sweetned with Sugar well this you may use as long as you please and at any time in the year for them that find a wheasing and shortness of breath it is very good you must fast an hour after it Proved A Medicine to ripen any Boyl or sore or a Push TAke a Spoonful of Molish-honey clarified Wheat-flower a Spoonful a yolk of an Egg mix these altogether and apply it warm as blood morning and evening as thick as your finger till it break apply it It is very good to ripen a Plague-sore For the Spleen LEt the Party purge twice in a week with a Dram or the weight of Six pence of Pulvis Sanctus and the next week cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Emerod veins in the Fundament afterward use this Drink following for the space of seven or eight days TAke the inward bark of an Ash-tree two ounces of Polopodi-root or Fern that groweth on the sides of watry ditches one ounce Tamartock two good hardfuls Licorish half an ounce Anniseed an ounce Let these be boyled in three quarts of small Beer till it come to two quarts whereof let the Party drink every morning and at night going to bed-ward a quarter of a pinte very warm And for Diet LEt them generally forbear Fish Bak'd-ments smoak'd-meats and new Beer use to eat good store of Broom-buds Capers for Sallets and after this course you shall cause the Leeches to be applyed to the Emerod veins in the Fundament An excellent Medicine for a Scald or Burn and chiefly for the Emerods TAke a pinte or a quart of Linced-oyl and put into it as many Crafish alive as it will hold then boyl them a quarter of an hour then strain the oyl from them and let them be very well beaten in their shels in a Morter then put them into the oyl again and let them boyl as formerly then strain them from the oyl as you can then fill your oyl as full of tops of Elder or young buds of Elder or the young fresh leaves and let it boyl in them till they be crisp'd like fry'd Parsly then strain it very hard from the Elder and reserve it for an excellent Medicine For the Whites to cleanse and stay them TAke of Purits Rossin or Gum of Lignum vita otherwise called of gum Guaicom rub it gently in a Morter so as it may be in a fine powder and thereof mingle as much as the weight of six pence in a draught of Milk and Sugar and take it cold so use it twice in a week for two weeks together and it will give you two stools or three cleanse and knit the weakness of the back For a Whitlow TAke a Snail out of his Shell and chop it very small and bind it to it and dress it twice in a day and it will quickly heal it For a cut of a finger or hand TAke some green Hysop and stamp it well in a Morter with some Sugar and so bind it on the hand For a Tetter or Ring-worm TAke ordinary white Coperas four ounces powdered fine and put to it a pinte of sharp white Wine vineger and shake them well together till the Coperas be well dissolved so weting linnen cloths in it and apply it to the place grieved For one that is costive in Child-bed there is no safer thing nor better TAke two ounces oyl of sweet Almonds or if the Party cannot take it you may make a Supository of Castle-soap cut with a wyre For the Scyatica an approved Medicine TAke red seeded Nettles and whip the grieved party so far as his pain goeth till it be all over bubbled and so let him ly to sleep and the next day he shall be whole by the help of God though he were so bad he could not stir off the bed in five or six weeks out of your bed you must lash them gently not too hard and if it should come again use it again and if it come again use it again and be whole alwaies after For an extraordinary flux of Rheum in the Eys that hath been TAke stone pitch and spread it upon leather as broad as the palm of your hand and as round and prick it full of holes with
a point of a knife and lay it to the nape of your neck just upon the bone that sticketh out most and as long as it will ly on let it but in two or three days it helpeth some You may let it ly on as long as you please a quarter of a yeer and if it falleth off before your eyes be well you may wipe off the moisture of it and apply others as you shall see occasion Probatum To Cure a Catarack A Catarack is curable by making an Issue in the Nape of the Neck This is the manner how you shall discern a Catarack it will seem to be like many motes or little Flyes between them and the light and in the beginning beginneth to take away the true sight of the Eye and then it groweth into a Film which is counted uncurable when it covers the whole sight or bale of the Ey though at first it is curable although there is nothing to be seen on the out-side of the Ey as a purl or such like so that it is not to be helped being within the Ey though many books write of it without the handy Operation of some skilful Chyrurgion puting some filver Needle into one corner of the Ey and twisting the film about the Needle coucheth it under the sight of the Eye where it will afterward waste but it requires an Artist that is well skill'd in the couching a Catarack For a Consumption TAke the heart and lungs of a Calf new killed a Capon let these be bruised in a stone morter and boyled with an hundred Snails till the broth be as thick as pottage then put to it Harts tongue Maiden hair Hysope Scabias Sage of each an handful with China roots sliced and beaten two ounces of the juyce of Coltsfoot roots ten ounces the blood of a Pig newly killed and Conserve of red Roses one pound these being well mixed let them be distilled in Balneo with a very gentle fire and reserve it Another TAke a young Cock pull him alive and then slit him in the middle then wipe him with a clean cloth then take sops of white bread soaked in a quart of Burrage water put the sops in a common Still and lay the Cock with his bones broken upon the sopping putting thereto raisins of the Sun stoned and unwashed with a quantity of Dates this being distilled take thereof constantly a pretty quantity A Julip of D. Trench for the Mother fits Proved IN the time of yeer distil black Cherry water Pyon flower water Couslip water Rue or Herbgrace water then take of the waters of Couslip and black Cherry of each an ounce Aqua Histericae half an ounce Cinamon water one dram Sirup of Clove Gillyflowers three drams Take of these two spoonfuls at a time as often as you please Histerica is Castor To make the Salt of Coral TAke of the broken pieces of the reddest Coral you can get at the Druggist half a pound or as much as you please then put upon it of good wine Vineger distilled a gallon and presently you shall see it work up and down upon the Coral then set it in a great glass on the top of a warm Stove and let it stand three or four dayes then if you taste of the Vineger although it were sharp before it will have no strength but taste sweetish which is a signe it hath taken into the Vineger as much as it can then you may pour that off from the Coral and put on more Vineger and do as before till all your Coral be dissolved then put all your Vineger together and put it into a large flat pan well glased and lay into the Vineger in the pan two or three white lists half a yard long and let one half of them ly in the Vineger in the pan and the other half hang out and you shall see those lists which must first be very clean washed before you lay them into the Vineger by drops draw out all the Vineger in the pan which you must receive with setting an other large pan or pot under the ends of the Lists that hang out of the pan that they ly in And when you have so filtred your foresaid Vineger very clear from the dross of the Coral which you shall see remain at the bottom of the first pan you put your Vinegar into then you must set your clear Vinegar into the Oven being a little hotter then when Houshold bread is drawn but it must be put into a large clean Tinne Bason or Silver for it will pierce through any earthen vessel and so it must be breathed away gently till all the Vineger be gone and leave the Salt of Coral in the bottom being very gently dryed Then must you have in a readiness a pottle or two of plain distilled water and upon your formerly dryed salt of Coral if there be a quarter of a pound put a quart of distilled water and set it in warmth till it be melted like Sugar in it then lay in your clean washed lifts of cloth into it being put into a flat Pan as formerly and let it run through those lists by drops to purify the salt and when all the water is come from the dross which will remain in the Pan the lists were put into then put your clear water into the Oven and let it breath away gently till it leave the salt of Coral dry and then disolve it in distilled water again and proceed with it as before and then it will be pure and prepared for your use whose vertues are many and some approved by practise as followeth The vertues of the salt of Coral IT is to be given to children of any age in Fevers the weight of twenty grains and gently covered to move sweat Also to women in child-bed that are in any Fever the weight of thirty grairs Also in apparision of any small Pox or the Measels it is never taken without good success It strengtheneth the Liver and helpeth it to make good blood being taken twice in a week in a little Posset-ale and continued so for the space of a moneth Also it helpeth children of Convulsions For Convulsion Fits TAke white Coperas dissolve it in a little warm distilled water and then with clean lists layed into it fylter it from his dross and gently vapor away the water till it be â—…ry then dissolve it again fylter it and lay it again in a Oven as before and it is prepared Hereof you may give unto a sucking child three grains in a spoonful of Posset-drink once or twice and it seldom or never faileth but cureth An excellent Vomit TAke the leaves of Assara-bacca being gathered in the beginning of June and run a threed through the leaves and let them hang thereon till they be dry in the shade so that you may powder them to fine Powder in a Morter and then searse them and keep the Powder in a Glass close stopped Hereof you may give to a man